{"id":13877,"date":"2016-02-01T09:43:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=13877"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:31","slug":"remembering-a-fateful-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/remembering-a-fateful-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a Fateful Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Remembering a Fateful Night\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Parliament_after_fire_NYT_Feb_1916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"203\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Parliament_after_fire_NYT_Feb_1916-400x203.jpg\" alt=\"black and white picture of parliament after the fire\" class=\"wp-image-13878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Parliament_after_fire_NYT_Feb_1916-400x203.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Parliament_after_fire_NYT_Feb_1916-160x81.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Parliament_after_fire_NYT_Feb_1916-240x122.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Parliament_after_fire_NYT_Feb_1916-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Parliament_after_fire_NYT_Feb_1916-360x182.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Parliament_after_fire_NYT_Feb_1916.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Parliament buildings in the morning after the fire, February 13, 1916, via <em>The\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Feb 3, 1916, fire struck the Parliament Buildings. By 3 pm the next day, Parliament had moved down the street, and settled in amongst the fossils, minerals and art of the newly built Victoria Memorial Museum, now the Canadian Museum of Nature. Parliament remained there for 4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian Museum of Nature and the International Association of Fire Fighters invite you to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the great Fire of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of note to members of our history department, Carleton alumnus Dr. David Tough (Contract Instructor, Trent University) will present on some of the pressing questions of the early twentieth century, including women&#8217;s suffrage and the arrival of income taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event took place on Thursday, February 4, from 5 to 8pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb 3, 1916, fire struck the Parliament Buildings. By 3 pm the next day, Parliament had moved down the street, and settled in amongst the fossils, minerals and art of the newly built Victoria Memorial Museum, now the Canadian Museum of Nature. Parliament remained there for 4 years. The Canadian Museum of Nature and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[116,161,162],"class_list":["post-13877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-alumni","tag-canadian-history","tag-ottawa-history"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13970,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions\/13970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}